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Re: old functions bioskey(), sound(), nosound(), delay()

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:44
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Morosh wrote:

>My problem is that my program use functions bioskey(), sound(), nosound(),
>delay() that apparently are not supported in version 5.5.

As Andrue mentioned, it's not a compiler limitation. Windows just
plain doesn't support those functions in a 32bit program.

>Is there an equivalent to this functions in v5.5 somewhere??

bioskey(),
	Depends on exactly what you want to do with it.
For simple stuff (console application), use the C functions such as
getch(), or the C++ cin stream.
For Win32 API, see "Keyboard Input Functions" in Win32.HLP.

sound()
nosound(),
	Again, depends what you want to do.
See Beep(void) in BCB5.HLP
See Win API   Beep(freq,duration) in Win32.HLP.
See also MessageBeep() in Win32.

delay()
	Sleep( milliseconds ) Not accurate, may be longer due to
Windows task scheduling. Windows also has High Performance Timers for
more accurate timing requirements, but most apps don't it.

>Also is there a document somewhere describing all functions supported by the
>command line bcc32, v5.5??

Maybe not as a "list", but yes...
All "Standard C" functions.
Also, you should have also downloaded a bunch of help files.
Of particular value to me have been:
TOOLS.HLP which gives the commandline options for each tool,
BCB5.HLP which lists the C, STL and RW functions
Win32.HLP which lists the main Windows API Functions (less-used
functions, such as sockets, are found elsewhere).
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